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I dont even know where to go with this post as I find it absurd...Not that you dont like the place..But to say the quality has gone down and the beers are not the same is just wrong

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Actually love the place, my first post on ba was how I don't think they can be beat. 2012 was not a good year for them imo...fbs, and backwoods, and d.t. (cant really fairly judge cuz the earliest bottle dates we had were already 5 weeks old) were not up to par with 09,10,11. I've had many people agree with me and many disagree to each his own, just my opinion.

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Sixpoint. I hear nothing but good things about their stuff, but to date I've tried Resin, Bengali Tiger, Diesel, and 3Beans, and most fall into the "Meh" category. Even 3Beans, which is my favorite of the four, has a weird metallic flavor. The Resin and Bengali Tiger I tried were both very light on the hops, so I thought maybe I'd gotten old cans, but I tried Bengali Tiger on draft last week and it was more of the same. I keep thinking/hoping I'm getting unlucky, but I'm starting to lose hope.

Mikkeller
Three Floyds
Sixpoint
Never will buy anything from those three ever again.

as much as I hate to talk bad about breweries in the state in which I currently reside:
Blue Mountain
Devils Backbone
I'm rooting for the success of last two and still try every new beer they put out even though I haven't had something from them I would consider exceptional. Although they have obviously impressed others, as both have medaled at the GABF.

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Stone- Favorite is Smoked Porter w/ Vanilla Beans. Everything else, somebody else in the area does it better.

Rogue- Shakes Oatmeal Stout is a solid example of the style, but almost everything else disappoints. Single hop ales are good, but hard to find outside of NorCal/Oregon. The Voodoo doughnut beers are SO bad that they should lose their liquor license. The fact that they brewed ANOTHER one is proof that these guys are no longer up there with the big boys.

I can't wait until Sam Calagione sees this thread and gives you all a quick boxing of the ears.

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Ya like what ya like, ya don't what ya don't. If you've given a series of beers multiple chances, and not enjoyed them each time, then you have every right to let the brewery know. That being said, Bitches Brew almost makes up for the DFH beers that I don't like.

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I'm going with rogue and stone. I just don't enjoy the beers from either brewery. I don't know why either. When I drink things from either brewery I just wish I had the same style beer brewed by a brewery I actually like in my glass. Happened with shakespear stout, happened with enjoy by, happened with dead guy ale, and it happened with double bastard. Let the flaming begin.

I've recently been able to try a few from Deschutes (Black Butte and Red Chair) and was less than impressed by them. I really wanted to like them too. They weren't bad by any means, just not worth all the hype. I absolutely love a few from New Holland and Left Hand, but find the rest of their beers just so-so.

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Another for Atwater. I love their Vanilla Java Porter but everything else has been too watery and bland. Another for Arcadia as well. Again, too bland. Although to be fair, I haven't tried as much of their stuff.

I don't understand the "I like everything by X brewery but nothing is world class" camp (in response to this particular thread). Making a consistently good line of brews, even if nothing is world class, is impressive in my book. So Stone, Lagunitas, Victory, Troegs, while not world class, are impressive to me.

IMO, it's the Flying Dog, Magic Hat, Widmer, Rogue school where they have one or two good to great brews and a handful of average to even bad ones that still need to "impress" me. I like FD Raging Bitch and MH Ticket to Rye, but on the whole, my reaction to those brewers has been underwhelmed to outright disappointed.

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Ale Asylum. Two very good IPA's in Ballistic and Bedlam. Now that they are in their brand new facility, hoping they brew some monster beers. They have some nice limited offerings in their tap room, but my lifestyle doesn't allow me to get out, so I have to wait until it hits the bottles.

they are my local brewery (i literally work across the street!). they make good beer, particularly really good scotch ale Full Boar thats pretty tasty and now comes in 16oz cans, i send out as extras probably more than anything else. its also a fun place to hang out with friends and grab a growler or 2 for the weekend.

however they still havnt been able to break the threshhold into being a "good brewery"

i had their BA Full boar (scotch ale) and while it was still pretty tasty i was hugely dissappointed in the lack of berrel character. still waiting for that one beer that absolutely blows me away.

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Glad to hear that they have gotten Full Boar under control. I've given it a try a few times, and each time it was, IMHO, just my $.02, with the proper disclaimer, infected.

The hype machine generates a lot of good for a lot of breweries.
But what brewery were excited to try their stuff, have had more than 1 beer from, yet has't grabbed you?

I'm NOT calling for OVERHYPED breweries. Just ones you want to like, for whatever reason, but just can't get behind yet. Call it ones you still have hope for and reservations about.

Me: I went down the Arcadia road for a while. Kept trying and trying... Nothing was worth it. Even found a bottle of the BBA Shipwreck stout I think it was. When even that didn't impress me... I was done with them.

- Boulevard: have had the Long Strange Tripel and Sixth Glass. LST was just ok, Sixth was quite good but didn't wow me.
- Arcadia: multiple pours of a lot of their stuff. Just not for me.

This is for breweries AS A WHOLE. There are a bunch of other threads about specific beers over and underwhelming.

None of you know what you are saying. "I've had some of their beer and it is good, but the other stuff doesn't stand out." Every beer you drink is not going to be World Class, according to BA. Appreciate a beer for what it is. Drink to style. Drink to enjoy. Just because they are "overrated" (for whatever that means), doesn't mean they are bad. Every person has their own taste. Not to be a party pooper, because they do mostly make great beers, but Hill Farmstead is good and great, but is every beer they make the greatest beer in the world? No. I have had a lot of HF beers, but for a few of their beers I have been unimpressed. Does that mean I think they are a terrible brewery? No. They are amazing. Each brewery has their faults and their strong suits. This is a site to appreciate beer. If there are people that don't like Two Hearted or Edmund Fitzgerald or just a tasty Lagunitas IPA, then maybe you don't belong here. Appreciate what it is. This is a crazy post, and people might hate, but there is no reason to hate on good, well established breweries that put out a great product.

Not being impressed by a brewery or a beer is a long way from saying you hate them or that the brewery shouldn't exist. Saying you didn't find beer "X" impressive or amazing does NOT mean you're "hating" on that beer or brewery. If everything is a "gold star" then being a gold star means nothing.

IMO there are too many people that get butt hurt because someone else doesn't like the same things they do. Why do people become so personally offended when others don't like the exact same thing they do?

I don't like IPA's in any fashion. I've yet to have one I'd ever bother to order again. Which pretty much means I don't like 2 Hearted or Lagunitas IPA and yes I've had both. Not the done the Fitz tho. Is this place for me? According to some - maybe not. I guess I'll just decide for me if it is or not, not someone else.

Now I guarantee someone will come along and tell me I have the palate of a garbage truck, don't know what I'm talking about and that I suck. It's because they're offended that I'm not exactly like them. Seeking validation for their own tastes in the tastes and acceptance of others.

Guess I'm secure enough in my "beerhood" to state my preferences and not care. Just the same as when people don't like the things I do. I just don't care.